Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 141

A little later the general found another shipwrecked crew, who gave him, in exchange for his cook, a sabre and a towel, each of magic power.

Who acts: general, shipwrecked crew · What happens: find, shipwreck, give · To what, where: shipwrecked crew, general, exchange

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (general, shipwrecked crew), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 found	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 general	det
5	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 crew	det
8	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 crew	amod
9	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 crew	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 exchange	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 exchange	case
16	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 cook	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cook	nmod:poss
19	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exchange	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sabre	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sabre	det
22	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exchange	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 towel	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 towel	det
25	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sabre	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 each	punct
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 exchange	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 power	case
29	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 power	amod
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 each	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the general	another shipwrecked crew			late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Topic
2	shipwreck	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	another shipwrecked crew		general	exchange for general's cook and a sabre and a towel		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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